Ben Writes

TV Shows I Thought Would Suck: Ridiculousness

I like Rob Dyrdek - sure he suffers from scrawny white guy who think he’s black syndrome. And yeah, he’s nowhere near as funny as when he has Christopher “Big Black” Boykin to play his fat black guy foil. And as I’m reminded of all too often, the situations he keeps mistakenly finding himself in the middle of come off way too scripted. With all that said, not everything on television needs to be highbrow … BUT there has to be some modicum of originality somewhere, which is where I had a feeling Ridiculousness would fall short.

Let me start by saying the set of the show is absurd and I normally couldn’t care less about such trivialities. The issue here is that the set distracts from the show. Rob walks around on a ridiculously giant laptop like a little cartoon character, it’s hokey and not in a good way. But to be honest this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Watching the show it becomes readily apparent that the writing team gets their material from old episodes of Tosh.0 minus the tasteless jokes that make Daniel Tosh worth watching. Rob’s commentary adds nothing at best, it often seems like this is the first time watching the videos and is making up comments on the fly. At worst he sucks the funny out of the videos.

Then there’s the fact that the videos often aren’t that funny. I mean not even a chuckle. How can you have an internet clip show and not be funny? It takes no imagination, it takes an internet connection and failblog.

Ridiculousness sucks. Bad. Don’t watch it.